Before starting the Google Machine Learning Crash Course, it's essential to complete the following prerequisites and prework tasks to ensure a solid foundation.
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Basic Algebra: Understand variables, equations, graphs, and functions.
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- Completed: Reviewed key algebraic concepts and completed practice exercises.
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Basic Programming Skills: Familiarity with programming, especially in Python.
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- Completed: Practiced Python programming with small projects and exercises.
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Statistics and Probability: Basic understanding of statistics and probability.
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- Completed: Finished lessons on descriptive statistics, probability distributions, and inferential statistics.
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Watch Introductory Videos: Completed introductory videos on machine learning.
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- Completed: Gained an overview of machine learning concepts and real-world applications.
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Set Up Python Environment: Installed necessary software for machine learning.
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- Python, Jupyter Notebook, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, TensorFlow.
- Completed: Set up the development environment and ran test scripts.
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Review Linear Algebra: Understand vectors, matrices, and linear transformations.
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- In Progress: Currently reviewing matrices and their operations.
- Watch "Introduction to Machine Learning" Video
- Link: Introduction to Machine Learning
- Complete: Learned the basics of machine learning, its types, and applications.
- Complete "ML Introduction Quiz"
- Result: 100%
- Practical Exercise: Implement a simple classification model.
- Project: Built a simple spam classifier using Python.
- Read "Framing" Article
- Link: Framing
- Complete: Learned how to frame machine learning problems effectively.
- Complete "Framing Quiz"
- Result: 90%
- Practical Exercise: Define the problem for a real-world dataset.
- Project: Framed a problem for predicting house prices based on various features.
- Watch "Descending into Machine Learning" Video
- Link: Descending into Machine Learning
- Complete: Explored loss functions and gradient descent.
- Complete "Gradient Descent Exercise"
- Result: Successfully implemented gradient descent.
- Practical Exercise: Apply gradient descent to a dataset.
- Project: Used gradient descent to optimize a linear regression model for predicting sales.
- Read "First Steps with TensorFlow" Article
- Link: First Steps with TensorFlow
- Complete: Set up TensorFlow and created a basic model.
- Complete "TensorFlow Basics Exercise"
- Result: Built and trained a linear regression model.
- Practical Exercise: Create a model to predict house prices using TensorFlow.
- Project: Developed and trained a model with TensorFlow to predict house prices.
- Read "Generalization" Article
- Link: Generalization
- Complete: Learned about overfitting, underfitting, and improving model generalization.
- Complete "Overfitting and Underfitting Exercise"
- Result: Applied techniques to avoid overfitting.
- Practical Exercise: Implement regularization to improve model performance.
- Project: Applied L2 regularization to a model to reduce overfitting.
- Read "Training and Testing Sets" Article
- Link: Training and Testing Sets
- Complete: Understood the importance of training and testing data splits.
- Complete "Train/Test Split Exercise"
- Result: Successfully split data into training and testing sets.
- Practical Exercise: Evaluate model performance using different data splits.
- Project: Implemented train/test split and evaluated model accuracy on different datasets.
- Read "Validation" Article
- Link: Validation
- Complete: Explored model validation techniques.
- Complete "Cross-Validation Exercise"
- Result: Implemented cross-validation to assess model performance.
- Practical Exercise: Use cross-validation to tune hyperparameters.
- Project: Conducted cross-validation on a dataset to find optimal hyperparameters for a classification model.
- Read "Regularization for Simplicity" Article
- Link: Regularization for Simplicity
- Complete: Studied techniques for regularization such as L1 and L2.
- Complete "Regularization Exercise"
- Result: Applied L1 and L2 regularization to different models.
- Practical Exercise: Experiment with different regularization techniques.
- Project: Compared model performance with L1, L2, and dropout regularization.
- Read "Classification" Article
- Link: Classification
- Complete: Learned about binary and multi-class classification.
- Complete "Classification Algorithms Exercise"
- Result: Built and evaluated a logistic regression classifier.
- Practical Exercise: Implement and compare different classification algorithms.
- Project: Built logistic regression, decision tree, and random forest classifiers and compared their performances on a dataset.
- Watch "Conclusion and Next Steps" Video
- Link: Conclusion and Next Steps
- Complete: Recapped key concepts and explored future learning opportunities.
- Complete "Final Project"
- Result: Developed a comprehensive project to classify images using a convolutional neural network (CNN).
- Plan Future Learning: Outlined future goals and additional resources for continued learning in machine learning and data science.
- Objective: Develop a model to predict machinery failures before they occur.
- Description: Used historical maintenance data to build a predictive model that forecasts equipment breakdowns, allowing for proactive maintenance.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, Pandas, Scikit-learn.
- Objective: Analyze sentiment in social media posts to gauge public opinion on various topics.
- Description: Collected and processed social media data to classify sentiments (positive, negative, neutral) using natural language processing techniques.
- Tools: Python, NLTK, Scikit-learn.
- Objective: Classify images into different categories using CNNs.
- Description: Built and trained a CNN on a dataset of images to classify them into predefined categories, such as cats vs. dogs.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, Keras.
- Objective: Segment customers based on purchasing behavior for targeted marketing.
- Description: Analyzed customer data to create segments using clustering techniques, enabling personalized marketing strategies.
- Tools: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib.
- Objective: Develop a recommendation system to suggest products to users.
- Description: Built a collaborative filtering-based recommendation system to recommend products based on user preferences and past behavior.
- todo: Implementing collaborative filtering and matrix factorization techniques.
- Tools: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Surprise.
- Objective: Forecast future stock prices using historical data.
- Description: Applied time series analysis techniques, including ARIMA and LSTM, to predict stock price trends.
- Tools: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow.
- Objective: Classify emails as spam or not spam using machine learning.
- Description: Built a classification model using natural language processing to detect and filter spam emails.
- todo: using a Naive Bayes classifier.
- Tools: Python, Scikit-learn, NLTK.
- Objective: Recognize handwritten digits using neural networks.
- Description: Trained a neural network on the MNIST dataset to classify handwritten digits with high accuracy.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, Keras.
- Objective: Detect fraudulent transactions in financial datasets.
- Description: Implemented machine learning techniques to identify fraudulent transactions, focusing on anomaly detection.
- Tools: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn.
- Objective: Detect and classify objects within images using deep learning.
- Description: Used YOLO (You Only Look Once) algorithm to detect and classify multiple objects in images.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, OpenCV.
- Objective: Create an intelligent chatbot capable of understanding and responding to user queries.
- Description: Developed a chatbot using natural language processing and machine learning to simulate human-like interactions.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, NLTK.
- Objective: Apply artistic styles to images using neural networks.
- Description: Implemented neural style transfer to combine content from one image with the style of another.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, Keras.
- Objective: Build a model to translate text from one language to another.
- Description: Used sequence-to-sequence learning with neural networks to develop a language translation model.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, Keras.
- Objective: Predict housing prices using regression models.
- Description: Built a regression model to predict housing prices based on features such as location, size, and amenities.
- todo: using linear regression and random forest models.
- Tools: Python, Scikit-learn, Pandas.
- Objective: Optimize hyperparameters for a neural network to improve performance.
- Description: Conducted experiments to find the best combination of hyperparameters for a neural network.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, Keras.
- Objective: Use data augmentation techniques to enhance the robustness of an image classification model.
- Description: Applied techniques such as rotation, flipping, and zooming to augment the training dataset.
- Tools: Python, TensorFlow, Keras.
- Objective: Improve model performance by combining multiple learning algorithms.
- Description: Tested different ensemble methods like bagging, boosting, and stacking to increase accuracy and robustness.
- Tools: Python, Scikit-learn.
- Objective: Enhance model performance by creating new features from existing data.
- Description: Experimented with different feature engineering techniques to uncover insights and improve model predictions.
- Tools: Python, Pandas.
- Objective: Make machine learning models more interpretable and transparent.
- Description: Used tools like LIME and SHAP to explain model predictions and ensure accountability.
- Tools: Python, LIME, SHAP.
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Explore Kaggle Competitions
- Objective: Participate in Kaggle competitions to apply machine learning skills in real-world challenges.
- Status: Reviewing available competitions and selecting one to start with.
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Read Research Papers
- Objective: Stay updated with the latest advancements in machine learning by reading research papers.
- Status: Compiling a list of recommended papers to start reading.
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Complete an Advanced Course
- Objective: Enroll in an advanced machine learning course to deepen understanding.
- Status: Researching courses on platforms like Coursera and edX.